Call the Watchmen!

Reading Watchmen for the first time, which gives me a good excuse to post this:

Though reading it I can't help feel that I'm doing it all backwards. I saw the film first, and haven't really read any of the older superhero stuff that the book is deconstructing, instead it's been the dark and gritty stuff that came after this. But that's not stopping my enjoyment of it, even though I know what happens in the end thanks to all the fan boy rage on the net about the movie screwing up the ending.